Echoes of the Multiverse

Yup. I stand by earlier assessment… I wish Dinosaur Swamp and Adventures in Dinosaur Swamp had released at the dawn of the game line instead of so much later on. This is the setting that really nails the “survival in a world gone weird” tone that the core rulebook seemed to be leaning towards, in a ...

I want it noted for the record, I said he was skilled not that he was good… Perhaps I should have said talented? He has the raw artistic capacity, but not the technical capability. Like, if he’d just learn some basic first year art school anatomy and basic page layout, he’d be great.

Liefeld is a skilled artist – yes, I said it – but he’s not a skilled writer… and I suspect he has too much ego to let a writer take the reins. Rob wants to work on projects that are artist first, writer secondary. That makes for flashy projects that do well the day they hit the stands, but it doesn...

Another thing that you may or may not wish to address regarding senses is the continued confusion about what properties you get to keep for exotic senses that are tied to the regular ones. For instance, in the book, they have improvision as a one Power Point sense, but by definition, that wouldn't ...

Back in 2e, I made stats for the heroes and major villains from Stargate SG-1 . One of the main characters, Dr. Daniel Jackson, is a genius linguist who himself states in one episode that he speaks twenty-three languages… and from context, he seems to be limiting himself to modern earthly human ones...

I feel most of the Sensory powers are fairly pointed, with two notable exceptions: Communication is dramatically over-priced in terms of range. Comic-book telepaths and “tech guys” are always setting up team-wide communications networks so everyone on the team can communicate easily during a mission...

Sun Wukong references/homages/parodies/etc. are about as endemic to Chinese and East Asian pop culture as King Arthur references are in European pop culture.

Actually princesses are very specifically forbidden from speaking second languages. The Anna who did ASL at a guest probably got reprimanded for it, even. Elena would be an exception as a Latina. That’s just insane. Jasmine should obviously be incentivized to speak Arabic, Mulan to know Mandarin, B...

Hmm… It was made in 1966. I’m guessing that some recreational pharmaceuticals might have been floating around the writers room.

I find the key to Time Travel is to treat it like the comics do and <I>not</i> letting players use it the way gamers think they should. Time Travel in comics most often works more like traveling between two locations rather than two points in time. Superboy leaves 20th Century Kansas and visits the ...

Byrne is one of my favorite comics scribes of all time, especially his FF run. The Matchbox Doombot was definitely a case of a writer on one book “protecting” his character from another writer… But it’s also very funny, really memorable, and incredibly in-character for Doctor Doom. And given how oft...

Disney has a reputation for hiring multilingual cast members and going the extra mile with employee retention efforts for cast members that speak less common languages. The one time I went to Disney Land, my mum had a lengthy conversation with a ride operator in Welsh (my mum’s Welsh is limited, she...

It’s kind of a shame that McFarlane Toys has never come out with a licensed RIFTS® line of adult action figures. It’s no secret that Siembieda has always fancied himself a comic book artist and he’s talked for decades about how toy companies have approached him to turn his IPs into toys. A lot of th...

["Titan Raptors" are] the Cover Critter in this book (featuring a pack of them attacking a giant robot armor and a woman in a fur bikini). Giant robot, girl in fur bikini, and a dude with a pair of laser pistols… But Jab didn’t even notice him. Paging Doctor Freud. Doctor Sigmund Freud pl...

Oh, there’s definitely going to be a third Black Panther movie. The ending was clearly laying groundwork for a sequel with Shuri in the suit from the start… and financially, both movies were box office gold: Black Panther did $700,426,566 domestically, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has made $453,62...